Prompt Chaining: Multi-Step AI Workflows

A single prompt can only take you so far. The real power unlocks when you connect outputs to inputs — building pipelines that tackle work no single prompt could ever handle alone. There is a hard limit to what a single prompt can accomplish. Not a context-window limit — a cognitive limit. When you ask an AI to simultaneously research a topic, synthesise findings, draft a document, adjust the tone, extract key points, and format everything for three different audiences, none of those tasks gets the AI’s full attention. Every one of them suffers. Prompt chaining is the solution. Instead of overloading one prompt with an entire project, you break the work into focused steps — each prompt receiving the previous step’s output as its input. The AI handles each stage with full precision, and the cumulative result is work that a single prompt could never produce. This is how professionals who use AI seriously actually work. Not one big sprawling prompt, but an engineered sequence — a pipeline